Seed-cotton cleaners

Cylinder cleaners are an Important type of seed-cotton cleaner. They remove small trash (16, 28) and operate by scrubbing seed-cotton against a grid-bar grate (inclined cleaner) or by the interaction of an upper and lower set of cylinders (Impact cleaner). Cylinder cleaners are well described in the Cotton Glnners Handbook (29). 

Cleaning elements precede and follow the actual ginning or flber-seed-separatlon process. Cleaning before ginning is referred to as seed-cotton cleaning or "overhead cleaning". Lint cleaners follow the gin stands in arrangements that vary from one manufacturer to another. 

Overhead Cleaning. A dryer is usually the first item on the seed-cotton side. One effect of a dryer is to increase the cleaning efficiency of cleaners. The dryer, though not a cleaner, is regarded as essential to the proper operation of cleaners. Dryers are discussed in more detail in the lint-cleaner section. 

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